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Dr. Maurice M. Shihadi Ed.D.earned his doctorate in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University. His current research interest is in Human Resource Service Quality Assessment in Technology Based Organizations. He received his MS Degree in Occupational Studies from the School of Human Resources, California State University Long Beach with an emphasis in administration. He has worked as a small business technical writer, consultant, and adjunct professor of business and computer applications since 1986 and is currently owner of anacru.net. Maurice currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. E-mail him at maurice@anacru.com
Anacru.com is a start-up consulting practice that provides web hosting, technical writing, post production audio, and technical support services for small buiness.
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Concepts are, so to speak, problem-solving devices, the internal equivalent of technologies; they are the technologies of the mind-machine. Concepts, theories, hypotheses, distinctions, comparisons; all these may be taken ultimately as instruments for organizing perceptions into logically consistent patterns called explanations. But they do not and cannot awaken in man a new quality of feeling or perceiving, a new organ or faculty of awareness. Concepts are no more nor less than tools by which man combines or analyzes that which he already knows through perceptions. If man's perceptions are limited mainly to the external senses, concepts can do no more than organize the material collected by the senses. Concepts can never reach beyond the level of perception at which man lives. Ideas, on the other hand, evoke, support, and require a higher level of awareness itself.
-Jacob Needleman (b. 1934), U.S. philosopher, educator. The Heart of Philosophy, ch. 3, Knopf (1982).
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